Gardening Gone Wild readers: help me decide which photos to include in my new rose book. There are several sections to the book, explaining how to photograph roses in gardens and as close-up illustrations, but the section on bouquets has too many photos – or maybe not. Help me out. There are so many ways to make beautiful photos[...]
I thought selecting my favorite photos of 2015 would be easy for my final Gardening Gone Wild post of the year. That is, until I had to actually narrow down the choices. What follows are surely 10 of my favorite photos, but I can’t say they are my absolute favorites – my overall list is 26. This is a[...]
Be it known that I love cookies so, alleluia!, the holidays are here. Now that I have your attention I want to talk about Christmas, not the “holidays”. I love the spirit of Christmas, the coming of Jesus. There, I have said it. I also like the wisdom of Epicurius, Lau-Tzu, and Jefferson, but now it is[...]
I have just finished a series of 16×24 photographs for an exhibition. An art buyer, working for an interior decorating firm, requested these 11 vertical photographs for a hospital patient waiting room. The request came out of the blue – I had never worked with this art buyer, and I had never printed any of[...]
I am starting a new book; The PhotoBotanic Guide to Photographing Roses. And just like my other e-books, the readers of Gardening Gone Wild are the guinea pigs, err, I mean get to read it here first. The book begins with photographing roses in garden: Working in the Garden. Later chapters will talk about photographing[...]